[Confirmed] Slew to Blackburn

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I can't believe I'm reading this.
Yet another home-grown youngster apparently sold at the first opportunity and most people seem to be turning cartwheels over it!
What happened to United's new way of doing things and building a team around our own young talent?
Slew has scored 3 goals in 8 matches. He looked brilliant at the end of last season and for the academy.
He's only 18 and people are moaning because he hasn't set the division alight yet. After 2 starts!
So what if we've signed two Rangers central midfielders on loan. How many more central midfielders do we need?
Where is the long-term planning involved in grooming players for Glasgow Rangers?
What sort of message does that send to the likes of Harriot and McAllister?
Who will provide the pace and skill up front now? Porter and Creswell? Evans?
United have chuffed it again, gone back on everything they said about building solid foundations and all for £1M. Brilliant!

I would add that we still only have 5 defenders in the first team squad who it seems are expected to remain injury and suspension fee until at least Xmas. Meanwhile, in central midfield we've signed McDonald, Hutton and Fleck to compete with Montgomery, Doyle, Williamson, Quinn, McAllister and Harriot. And we thought last years squad was unbalanced!
 



heh.. same owd same owd.. as predicted by yours truly one week ago.. no replacement lined up either.. comical:eek:
 
Sothall_Blade said:
Yet another home-grown youngster apparently sold at the first opportunity
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Didn't we turn down a 500k bid for him from Fulham?

I'm not turning cartwheels at this deal, but I certainly don't think it's a bad one. And I think turning down the bids we've had for Stephen Quinn, who is undeniably a key part of the team at present (and we know will continue to be), is fantastic news.
 
It's a decent move but only if we replace him. Having Slew in the team is better than having no-one at all. Will £1m pay Beatties wages?
 
Sothall_Blade said:
I can't believe I'm reading this.
Yet another home-grown youngster apparently sold at the first opportunity and most people seem to be turning cartwheels over it!
What happened to United's new way of doing things and building a team around our own young talent?
Slew has scored 3 goals in 8 matches. He looked brilliant at the end of last season and for the academy.
He's only 18 and people are moaning because he hasn't set the division alight yet. After 2 starts!
So what if we've signed two Rangers central midfielders on loan. How many more central midfielders do we need?
Where is the long-term planning involved in grooming players for Glasgow Rangers?
What sort of message does that send to the likes of Harriot and McAllister?
Who will provide the pace and skill up front now? Porter and Creswell? Evans?
United have chuffed it again, gone back on everything they said about building solid foundations and all for £1M. Brilliant!

I would add that we still only have 5 defenders in the first team squad who it seems are expected to remain injury and suspension fee until at least Xmas. Meanwhile, in central midfield we've signed McDonald, Hutton and Fleck to compete with Montgomery, Doyle, Williamson, Quinn, McAllister and Harriot. And we thought last years squad was unbalanced!
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Well said.
 
Fleck is not a central midfielder.

Your central midfield headcount should be based on quality not quantity. The result will then be very different. Monty and Doyle can be excluded for starters. The chief liability will be on his way once he's fit in any event: on loan pending a permanent offloading in January. Harriott is not yet ready and K-Mac is injured. McAllister will prove a real asset before the season's much older. But the more quality in this long neglected department the better.

It's the key area of any team. We have been woefully weak there for years. God bless DW for addressing it.
 
LoughboroBlade said:
Didn't we turn down a 500k bid for him from Fulham?

I'm not turning cartwheels at this deal, but I certainly don't think it's a bad one. And I think turning down the bids we've had for Stephen Quinn, who is undeniably a key part of the team at present (and we know will continue to be), is fantastic news.
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£500K was a joke offer for a current England U19 International. Even by United's standards it was never going to be acceptable.

I set up a poll at the end of April asking how much people would sell Slew for. Only 7 out of 72 said that they would sell him for £1M or less. Now many Blades seem to think we've made a killing. Has he really played that badly this season for people to change their valuation of him so much?

http://www.s24su.com/forum/showthre...d-you-sell-Slew-or-Maguire-for&highlight=Slew
 
Cant make my mind up if it's another whiff of McCabe rooting around the bottom of the barrel for the last of the family jewels.. or if it's good business for a raw fringe player. Hope we got a sell on clause this time.
 
Selling Slew will pay Quinns wages.

I know which of the two I would rather we sold.

Just the economic realities of life. We can only sell players that others wish to buy.
 
I set up a poll at the end of April asking how much people would sell Slew for. Only 7 out of 72 said that they would sell him for £1M or less. Now many Blades seem to think we've made a killing. Has he really played that badly this season for people to change their valuation of him so much?

No, he hasn't. It's just a reflection of the fact that some people will defend any decision the club makes.

This is a very disappointing move.

Yet another home-grown youngster apparently sold at the first opportunity and most people seem to be turning cartwheels over it!
What happened to United's new way of doing things and building a team around our own young talent?

As ever, ignore what United say, and just go by what they actually do.

I'm sure this will work out fine until Porter is injured again, which will happen at some point in the next 2 weeks knowing him.
 
I think it's a decent enough bit of business - if his head was turned by the lure of the Premier League (and the chicken money) then we were right to get shut for what seems a reasonable fee. We kept Quinny, maybe it's time for Chedwyn to reappear.
 



Cant make my mind up whether its true or not. Can't see anything official on Sky Sports.
 
Bladesway said:
Cant make my mind up whether its true or not. Can't see anything official on Sky Sports.
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Sky showed him signing autographs outside the ground last night but yes, bizarre that there's no official word anywhere.
 
Jim Chimmerney said:
Sky showed him signing autographs outside the ground last night but yes, bizarre that there's no official word anywhere.
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That leaves the question, did they agree personal terms with him?

Suppose we'll be playing waiting game, it'll only take the os another day confirm he's left or stayed after every other media outlet has already done so.
 
If he has gone and we have got £1m for him I don't really know whether its a good or bad thing. Having seen him I can honestly say I didn't rate him in the slightest. Looked willing but didn't have a poachers instinct, didn't seem particulary quick or strong. Couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. However, he was young so I would have liked to have seen him given a chance. And if selling him meant Quinn stayed then we made the right move.
 
If that's the cost of keeping the others, then excellent business blades.
 
The problem, as I see it, is that this is another product of the academy sold before we have had the benefit of at least a full season with him in the first team. I agree he hasn’t set the world on fire with his first team performances yet but he has scored goals in the first team, not an easy task for young players making the transition.

Off the top of my head I seem to remember Danny Welbeck struggling for goals in his formative years in the first team (either on loan or at Man Utd) so I would have liked to keep him for a while and see how he develops.

I’ve said this before and taken stick for it but I would never look at the sale of a good young prospect and think, “it’s a good bit of business”. I don’t follow the blades with an eye on the balance sheet, I leave that kind of thing at the office at 6pm each day.

I just see this as a young local lad, centre forward with an eye for goal departed the club too soon and I for one think it’s a massive shame.
 
Jodman, agree totally but it isn't the way we are run. Its a balancing act, we either keep Slew or we keep Quinn. Or something like that. I wish it were different but that really is the fact with us these days.
 
Threads merged.

Usual rules apply chaps... confirmed only when appears on OS and until then, any rumblings live in Rumour Mill :)
 
Yet more evidence - as if anyone needed it - that McCabe views the Blades as just another business venture. Passion, ambition etc doesn't come into it for him. Oh for an owner like Coates at Stoke - a true fan who backs the club financially.
 
Bladesway said:
Jodman, agree totally but it isn't the way we are run. Its a balancing act, we either keep Slew or we keep Quinn. Or something like that. I wish it were different but that really is the fact with us these days.
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Yep i know those are the facts, you are right of course. I just hope that balance is maintained and we don't end up without both of those players by the end of January.
 
Blue boots!

No self respecting Blade would ever wear blue boots - especially after Pembo insisted that Academy lads wear black boots.
Shows a protest to me and means that his attitude is questionable as well as his commitment.
 
I like many others am not sure what to make of Slew leaving. Whilst he might not have made the impact yet that many expected, he's still only very young. Plus it leaves us in a a bit of a poor position up front now.
 
Thats about how i see it. Could never make my mind up about him but then again he's time to develop. At a million its worth a gamble for Blackburn and its money we need right now. All in all, the right move as we still have SQ,NM & LW.
 
A bit inevitable really - the delay over his signing in the summer was the writing on the wall - if he wants to rot in Blackburn's reserves so be it, I hope we put a sell-on clause on the deal but doubtless we didn't bother. In an ideal world we would have kept hold of him but youngsters only seem happy to stay at top 4 clubs these days.
 



At least his selling will mean we can keep paying Cheds wages..........
 
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